Tropical Cyclone Alfred continued to spin over the Coral Sea on Monday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Monday the center of Tropical Cyclone Alfred was located at latitude 14.6\u00b0S and longitude 154.5\u00b0E which put the center about 670 miles (1085 km) north of Brisbane, Australia.\u00a0 Alfred was moving toward the south at 4 m.p.h. (6 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 984 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Alfred strengthened to the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon as it spun over the Coral Sea on Monday.\u00a0 The inner end of a rainband wrapped around the center of Alfred’s circulation.\u00a0 A small circular eye was evident at the center of Tropical Cyclone Alfred on visible satellite images.\u00a0 The eye was surrounded by a ring of thunderstorms and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Tropical Cyclone Alfred.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Alfred generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the tropical cyclone.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Cyclone Alfred was small.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane\/typhoon force extended out 15 miles (25 km) in the southern side of Alfred’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 60 miles (95 km) from the center of Tropical Cyclone Alfred.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Alfred will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Alfred will move over water where where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the western part of an upper level ridge over the Coral Sea.\u00a0 The upper level ridge will produce northeasterly winds that will blow toward the top of Alfred’s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause some vertical wind shear, but the wind shear will not be enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Alfred is likely to intensify during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Alfred will move around the western side of a high pressure system that is over Vanuatu.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Alfred slowly toward the south during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Cyclone Alfred will move parallel to the east coast of Australia.\u00a0 Alfred could move closer to the coast of Queensland by the end of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Alfred continued to spin over the Coral Sea on Monday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Monday the center of Tropical Cyclone Alfred was located at latitude 14.6\u00b0S and longitude 154.5\u00b0E which put the center about 670 miles (1085 km) north of Brisbane, Australia.\u00a0 Alfred was moving toward the south at 4 m.p.h. (6 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,76,2],"tags":[347,3857,78,971,79,82,348,631],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22039,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22038\/revisions\/22039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}